He rode a vicious mare, which mother had told him time and again not to ride, as it had an ugly disposition.

I ran back and led the mare across the bridge (how I remember, in that silence, the thunder of her hoofs on the loose boards!)

It is necessary to present the case to you just as it stood at this period of my greatest struggle.) 1.That Arthur, swayed by cupidity and moved to rage by the scene at the dinner-table, had, by some unknown means of a more or less violent character, prevailed upon Adelaide to accompany him to The Whispering Pines, in the small cutter, to which, in the absence of every servant about the place, he himself had harnessed the grey mare.

There, as he rambled along the sunlit road, he met a lusty young butcher driving a fine mare and riding in a stout new cart, all hung about with meat.

Presently Oscar came to him, and after touching his hat respectfully took the mare and led her into the stable.

We had been able to buy the two the mare and the cartonly because the German soldiers had not thought them worth the taking.

" "Well, you're here, so what's the use of talking unless you mean to mount your mare and try it again.

Jan. 6, 1818, charged with feloniously stealing a mare, together with a saddle and bridle, the property of Ed.

To him did this man explain how he was a groom of King Mirjan, and that he brought the king's mares to pasture on the island, hiding underground while the stallions of the sea came up out of the waves unto the mares.

" She walked into the stable, followed by her cousin, and found the groom tying the mare.

she and Captain Jack swam the stream, and in the gray dawn, while the Quarter Circle KT still slept, he turned the mare and Captain Jack into the circular corral.

He went on until he came to a place where he found a mare which was fat, although she did not eat.

Next moment he had seized the reins and was urging the sorrel mare along the stony lane at her best pace.

The theft an old insidious peasant viewed, (They called him Battus in the neighbourhood,) Hired by a wealthy Pylian prince to feed His favourite mares, and watch the generous breed.

Therefore, despite Small Porges' exhortations, and Bess's champing impatience, she held the mare in, permitting her only the slowest of paces, which was a most unusual thing for Anthea to do.

I pulled up the mare, and who should come out of the woods but Grandison.

I stopped the mare.

Thus the calf belongs to the man who owns the cow, and the foal to the man who owns the mare, and not to the owner of the bull or horse, which were the male parents of each.

But hardly was he past the outskirts, hardly crediting his good luck that the sheriff himself was not yet on the way, than he touched the flanks with his spurs and sent the mare flying west.

As he cautiously saddled the mare he talked in a low, drawling monotone, uttering endearing phrases and occasionally slipping a lump of sugara supply of which he had got that night from the kitcheninto her mouth.

The slope was killing the mare.

An husbandman will sow none but the best and choicest seed upon his land, he will not rear a bull or a horse, except he be right shapen in all parts, or permit him to cover a mare, except he be well assured of his breed; we make choice of the best rams for our sheep, rear the neatest kine, and keep the best dogs, Quanto id diligentius in procreandis liberis observandum?

More than once, from a distance, he had watched the mare, getting a line on her habits.

Now, wha this tale o' truth shall read, Ilk man and mother's son, take heed: Whene'er to drink you are inclined, Or cutty sarks run in your mind, Think ye may buy the joys o'er dear; Remember Tam o' Shanter's mare.

" "And how is Sultana?" inquired the young girl, who had not seen the mare for several days.